The deeper cut in case you want to know more:

Geoff was born in Tokyo on October 9th, 1955. Steve spent his early life in Port Huron, MI. We met met while writing for an episodic stage play in Los Angeles called Tony Mack’s Swingin’ LA that won Best Cabaret in L.A. in Los Angeles Magazine in 1999. Our individual styles are distinct: We both love word play, but Geoff’s sense of humor leans toward complex, obscure references and strange juxtaposition of imagery, while Steve has an earthier, darker sense of humor.

Even we, though, sometimes find it difficult to tell who came up with what. Steve said, “The secret to long life is celibacy, but then, what’s the point.” Geoff wrote, “What is an olay and how do you extract oil from it?” Neither remembers who originated, “Thank you for calling me a sycophant.”

Frustrated by trying to get anyone in the “industry” to read our work, we decided to take it directly to the public and formed the company Joseph Coaler Productions, created the web site www.JosephCoaler.com and posted the first installment of Weeping Willow on January 1, 2001. As Geoff said in an interview, once. “We have no one but ourselves to answer to.” To which Steve replied, “I’m sorry, what? I was watching the bald man with the headphones.”

Our writing has been favorably compared to Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” author J. P. Donleavy, Harvard Lampoon’s “Bored of the Rings” and John Kennedy Toole’s “Confederacy of Dunces.” However, neither of us has read any of these classics so we don’t understand. Geoff compares our writing to Monty Python but misspells Monte. Steve compares it to Mancini and Hoff.

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